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No 43, 21 June 2025 The NAISS training team hopes you had a good summer break and feel refreshed for the autumn term.In this newsletter we advertise a wide variety of NAISS training events, scheduled for the beginning of the autumn term.An overview on our events is available on the NAISS website:OverviewNAISS trainingOn-site workshop: "Awk Workshop", Uppsala, 28-29 August, 2025Online training semi
https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter - 2025-12-09
For the third consecutive year, the Psychological Defence Research Institute (PDRI), in collaboration with the Swedish Psychological Defence Authority, hosted a conference on psychological defence. Reflecting the deteriorating security environment, this year’s conference focused on the intersection between research and policy. Held on 14–15 October in Lund, Sweden, the event brought together 70 re
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/exploring-intersection-research-and-policy-conference-psychological-defence - 2025-12-09
Through EUPRERA (The European Public Relations Education and Research Association), the Department of Communication (IKO) organised a large and highly regarded research conference on strategic communication at AF-borgen in Lund between 24 and 27 September. The conference is held every year – previous years in Bucharest, Prague, Vienna and Pamplona, among other places. Most of the researchers came
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/euprera-communications-conference-brought-together-200-researchers-around-world - 2025-12-09
A FORTE-funded interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder project exploring how digitalisation reshapes migrants’ access to work and inclusion in Sweden. On the 5th of September, the Digital Navigation (Dig-Nav) project held its kick-off event at Media Evolution in Malmö. The project is led by Dr. Deniz Neriman Duru, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Lund University, who received 8 mi
Our warmest congratulations to Magnus Johansson, who successfully defended his thesis in Media and Communication Studies: ‘Parenting in screen times. Negotiations, practices and experiences in everyday family life’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences on Friday, 12 September. The thesis deals with parenting and screen time from a moral perspective. Through interviews with parents, the study shows how
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/magnus-johansson-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-09
On November 27, Monica Porzionato received the Lund University Academy of Sciences’ prize for the best dissertation in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The award is presented annually to recognize outstanding research contributions and has a long-standing tradition at the university. Monica’s dissertation, Feeling the Changing Climate: An affective approach to the strategic communicat
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/monica-porzionato-awarded-best-dissertation-prize-lund-university - 2025-12-09
NordForsk has awarded 12.2 million NOK to fund the project “The Double Edge of Social Media Influencing: Participatory Antagonism and Communicative Resilience in the Nordics (INFLU-NORD)”for a three-year period (2026–2029). The project addresses the question of how social media influencing shape democratic trust and societal security in the Nordic region? It has two main objectives:Advance underst
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-explores-participatory-antagonism-and-communicative-resilience - 2025-12-09
At the end of April, the Faculty Board decided that a new department, the Department of Communication, will be created. The establishment of the new department is part of the faculty's development towards fewer units, but the merger has also been motivated by additional reasons. The new department will be established on 1 January 2025 and the following units will be included: Department of Strateg
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-department-communication-january-2025 - 2025-12-09
A new year is approaching and when the Faculty enters 2025, it will be with nine departments instead of the current eleven. The Faculty of Social Sciences will gradually develop towards fewer units over the next six years, according to a policy decision from 2023. After initial preparatory work, it is now time for the first changes to take place at the end of the year:The Department of Communicati
https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/eleven-departments-nine-turn-year - 2025-12-09
Researchers from Theme 3 and Theme 6 within NextG2Com had the opportunity to visit the Children’s Heart Center at Skåne University Hospital in Lund. Under the guidance of Chief of Surgery Kiet Tran and Associate Senior Lecturer Maj Stenmark, the participants were given an insight into the center’s daily activities and the work of the CAISA project. One percent of children born in Sweden are born w
https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/smallest-patients - 2025-12-09
NextG2Com organizes an annual workshop for all center partners, and this year, the second workshop in the series took place on April 29. The agenda included sustainability at all levels, insights from long-standing collaboration between industry and academia, and short partner presentations. NextG2Com brings together all partners annually for an internal workshop. This year’s invited speakers were
https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/sustainability-collaboration-and-theme-workshops - 2025-12-09
LTH honorary doctor 2025 Margaret-Anne Storey presented her research on social aspects of software development on different occasions during the conferment week in May. You can watch two recordings of her presentations here.
https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/social-aspects-software-development - 2025-12-09
Theme leaders and researchers in NextG2Com have received best application paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation during the previous year. Xuesong Cai, Erik L. Bengtsson, Ove Edfors and Fredrik Tufvesson have been awarded The IEEE Antennas and Propagation 2025 Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award, presented to the authors of the best application paper publ
https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/best-paper-2024 - 2025-12-09
Dr Marja Matinmikko-Blue from University of Oulu, Finland, will be giving an inspirational talk on the first NextG2Com program day on September 25, titled: Multi-disciplinary approach to future communication system development. Marja Matinmikko-Blue is Research Director of Infotech Oulu Institute and Director of Sustainability and Regulation at 6G Flagship. She is also member of the International
https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/keynote-nextg2com-program-day - 2025-12-09
The competence center NextG2Com gathered for a program day focusing on ongoing research, doctoral students, and demonstrations. NextG2Com is a Vinnova Competence Center that brings together research and expertise in future advanced communication systems. On September 25, sixty members and interested participants met for the center’s first program day at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering (LT
https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/research-doctoral-students-and-demos-nextg2coms-first-program-day - 2025-12-09
Vinnova has granted funding for the planning of clusters of excellence for groundbreaking technology. Of the 45 projects approved, five are at The Faculty of Engineering, and two are led by NextG2Com researchers. The projects granted by Vinnova bring together actors in all six strategic technology areas: AI and autonomous systems, materials and production technology, energy technology, biotechnolo
https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/lth-projects-receive-funding-vinnova-plan-future-technology-clusters - 2025-12-09
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https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/naturskydsforeningen-pa-utflykt-i-bjarsjolagard - 2025-12-09
Svante Björck med fler har skrivit en artikel i Nature med nya rön om senaste istidens köldperiod, Yngre Dryas, med titeln: "Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal"
https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/forsvagning-av-golfstrommen-kan-leda-till-mycket-varma-somrar-i-europa - 2025-12-09
Fem nya doktorer från Geologiska institutionen promoverades den 25e maj: Victoria Beckman, Martin Bernhardson, Laurie Charrieau, Elisabeth Einarsson och Johan Gren.Doktorspromotionen
https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/fem-nya-doktorer-fran-geologiska-institutionen-promoverade - 2025-12-09
Vi gratulerar Helena Alexanderson som återigen har tilldelats Lunds naturvetarkårs pedagogiska pris. Priset presenterades under Naturvetenskapliga fakultetens examensceremoni den 3 juni, där även sex studenter från Geologiska institutionen mottog sina examensdiplom.
https://www.geologi.lu.se/artikel/helena-alexanderson-har-ater-tilldelats-lunds-naturvetarkars-pedagogiska-pris - 2025-12-09
